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Google Tests A Software That Judges Hollywood's Portrayal of Women
Slashdot reader theodp writes: Aside from it being hosted in a town without a movie theater, the 2016 Bentonville Film Festival was also unusual in that it required all entrants to submit "film scripts and downloadable versions of the film" for judgment by "the team at Google and USC", apparently part of a larger Google-funded research project with USC Engineering "to develop a computer science tool that could quickly and efficiently assess how women are represented in films"...
Fest reports noted that representatives of Google and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy appeared in a "Reel vs. Real Diversity" panel presentation at the fest, where the importance of diversity and science to President Obama were discussed, and the lack of qualified people to fill 500,000 U.S. tech jobs was blamed in part on how STEM careers have been presented in film and television... In a 2015 report on a Google-sponsored USC Viterbi School of Engineering MacGyver-themed event to promote women in engineering, USC reported that President Obama was kept briefed on efforts to challenge media's stereotypical portrayals of women. As for its own track record, Google recently updated its Diversity page, boasting that "21% of new hires in 2015 were women in tech, compared to 19% of our current population"....
Fest reports noted that representatives of Google and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy appeared in a "Reel vs. Real Diversity" panel presentation at the fest, where the importance of diversity and science to President Obama were discussed, and the lack of qualified people to fill 500,000 U.S. tech jobs was blamed in part on how STEM careers have been presented in film and television... In a 2015 report on a Google-sponsored USC Viterbi School of Engineering MacGyver-themed event to promote women in engineering, USC reported that President Obama was kept briefed on efforts to challenge media's stereotypical portrayals of women. As for its own track record, Google recently updated its Diversity page, boasting that "21% of new hires in 2015 were women in tech, compared to 19% of our current population"....
>> USC reported that President Obama was kept briefed on efforts to challenge media's stereotypical portrayals
:)
Aha - so THAT'S what he was doing when the terrorists overran Benghazi...
The only acceptable algorithm the program could give would be:
10 PRINT "THIS SCRIPT PORTRAYS WOMEN POORLY."
20 GOTO 10
I'm certain the results of this experiment will be 100% fair and unbiased in any way, and everyone will agree with the results and come to a greater understanding.
Nope. It's a religion of and by itself. At the very least it has all the traits usually associated with religious nuttery.
1) Claims the moral high ground.
2) Claims to have the authority on truth.
3) Presents no substantial proof to support their claims.
4) Labels anyone daring to disagree as "evil".
5) Is absolutely unfazed by any kind of logical argument.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Aside of her collecting money for movies she didn't make, and then ask for more dough? Nope.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Now that's a phallucy !
Are you talking about SJWs, anti-SJWs, MRAs, anti-feminists, liberals, leftists, the alt-right or some other group? I can't tell from that description.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC